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Art Madrid '26: 21 years of contemporary art

In 2026, Art Madrid will celebrate its 21st edition, further consolidating its position as a leading contemporary art fair in Spain. From 4 to 8 March, the fair will bring together thirty-five national and international galleries at the Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles.

A Tico in Habana

If archives were not to be delved into and were scorned as simply useless and lugubrious places, we’ll be taking the risk of letting boldface names like Max Jimenez Huete (1900-1947) fall into oblivion in their own country –despite his being one of…

Cariebbean Art, THE LAST DECADE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

When the past century came to a close , the Caribbean art was basking in the international limelight. The 1990s were fertile in the opening of regional exchanges and in terms of major world-class exhibition events. The Caribbean plastic arts had…

Contemporary Art in NICARAGUA

I remember that a few years ago information on Central America’s artistic scene was scarce and misleading. On nations like Nicaragua, it used to be far more disappointing. No wonder one of the exhibits that tried to scour certain zones of the…

VOICES LIKE ECHOES

The fact that America is a young people is borne out, first of all, by the very history of the United States. The arch of sense that would fundamentally span from the 2000 to the 2008 presidential elections speaks plentiful volumes about the youth…

Elusive PARAGUAY

The invisibility of Paraguay’s arts in the world scene is not under discussion; it’s a fact. A shroud of silence wraps the country’s cultural creation. Even in the South Cone, Paraguay is still draped under a heavy haze, barely known for the…

Jose Bedia:Our obligation of going cross-cultural

Jose Bedia has never bee n properly an artis t. He ’s never wanted to be. Either way, he’s always been trying to avoid it, to escape from art just like any hounded animal in peril would do. Just as much as one of those deer or foxes splayed in his…

Lourdes Fernández ARCOmadrid 2009 Director

In your view, what were the main achievements of ARCOmadrid 08 and what influence did they exert in the conception of the 2009 edition? The main achievement of last year’s edition was its strengthening as one of the leading international fa

RUFO CABALLERO’S EXPIATION WATERS

Thinking feels a kind of fruition very similar to that of loving when it touches the naked body of an idea. Ortega y Gasset

Editorial 1 English

Our publishing group is giving its readers Art by Excelencias, a magazine envisaged to bear testimony to the creative processes within the framework of the fine arts and their main figures in the Americas and the Caribbean. From the standpoint of…

CRIST

Cristobal Reinoso was born in 1946 in Santa Fe, Argentina. He started making cartoons for TV shows, but he soon went head-on into graphic humor. Since 1973, he publishes daily in Buenos Aires’s Clarin newspaper.

VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, A CLEARING IN THE WOODS

As I read on Visible and Invisible, I imagine the exceptional hand of Pedro de Oraa –the hand of a painter and author, making sure this appraisal doesn’t lean solely to one side– assisted by profound thinking and abundant reflexive power.